Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

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Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

So this week we are doing a series of episodes called, yeah, that's not what that means. Okay. And so I'm going to be going over five of the most common

misapplied and misunderstood scriptures in all of the biblical canon. And yesterday I talked about

Matthew 7 verses 1 through 3 and the fact that we are indeed supposed to judge, but the posture of our heart determines whether it is appropriate or not.

Today we're going to another synoptic gospel, and that's the gospel of Luke, and we're going to look at Luke 17 verses 1 and 2, and I'll read it now in the Christian Standard Bible.

He said to his disciples, these are the words of Jesus,

offenses will certainly come, but woe to the one through whom they come. It would be better for him

if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea than for him to cause

one of these little ones to stumble. So this particular scripture, I mean, it's a crazy word

picture, right? And it's been used by a lot of

different groups, right? So anti-human trafficking organizations have used this verse. I've seen state

house bills that are referring to punishments for pedophiles using the millstone language,

so the millstone act or something like that. Children's rights groups have used this. And again,

the word picture is just absolutely terrifying.

I mean, you don't need to be aquaphobic. That's, you know, fear of drowning to look at this and be

like, this would be absolutely horrible. Because here's the thing, a millstone, that's a large

round stone that they used to grind grain back in the day. And donkey millstones, that's very

likely the reference that Jesus was making in verse two, those millstones

could range in size from 200 pounds to a thousand pounds. And I'm not a very strong swimmer,

and so you could put a cinder block around my neck and I'm probably going to go right to the bottom.

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